During the Vietnam war, F105 ‘Wild Weasels’ took part in a mission into North Vietnam. The mission of the Wild Weasels was to take out the enemy radar making it safer for the bombers. They were always first in, last out!
‘Thunderchief’ 428 aircraft is currently gate-guardian at RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire.

On Jan 23rd 1943 the B-17 ‘Beats Me’ 303rd Bomb Group / 360th Bomb Squadron, RAF Molesworth, was hit and the surviving crew bailed out. Last One Out was S/Sgt Charles L. Roth, a FW-190 approached him during his parachute fall. Fearing he would be fired upon instead he German pilot saluted.

In winter of 44/45, B-17 ‘Mary Alice’ flies low over a typical English landscape on her way home. ‘Mary Alice’ was assigned to 401st BG and flew from Deenethorpe airfield, Northamptonshire. She was named after the pilots mother!

‘Canberra’ PR 9 of No.39 Squadron lands after another mission in Afghanistan. After this deployment the last 3 Canberra’s in RAF service were retired.
On the occasion of the Queen’s 80th Birthday, Dave Pipes flew the Canberra, with the Red Arrows over Buckingham Palace. He is also the last pilot in the RAF to have flown the Canberra.